You only have one floppy (and an assumed hard drive, no network)?
Since you can only mount one floppy at a time, you will need to copy the
contents
of the floppy to the hard drive (or ramdisk) using your favorite copy
method, e.g.,
tar, cp, dd, etc. then swap floppes and copy the files back. I can't
think of
a way to emulate the old DOS xcopy a: b: via the shell directly off the
top of my head --
at least without producing code to do the job. you might check out mc
(midnight commander)...
it might have the functionality you want in it... I don't use it.
IMHO: I prefer to use dd or tar for this type of replication.
jonathan
"Manuel A. Camacho Q." wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I know this must be a simple one, but got no idea. How can I copy floppy
> disks on a single disk drive unit? (from the shell prompt)
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> -Manuel.
>
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